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A direct method is described for locating saddle pomts on multidimensional surfaces. It combines aspects of the COIIJUgate gradient method and the quasi-Newton mmimization method_
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A gradient method is presented which can be viewed as a continuous-time version of the 'distinguished (reaction) coordinate' method, one of the oldest techniques for finding transition states (saddles of first order). The method offers a simple uniform algorithm for finding saddles of any order, is
## Abstract A new method for calculating saddle points of reactions in solution is presented. The main characteristics of the method are: (1) the soluteβsolvent system is described by the averaged solvent electrostatic potential/molecular dynamics method (ASEP/MD). This is a quantum mechanics/molec
The application of the conventional saddle-point approximation to condensed Bose gases is thwarted by the approach of the saddle-point to the ground-state singularity of the grand canonical partition function. We develop and test a variant of the saddle-point method which takes proper care of this c